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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-01
THE CONTINENT AT LARGE.

The President, accompanied by Mrs. Cleve-
land and Colonel and Mrs. Lamont, left Wash
ington Thursday, for Saranac Lake, in the
Adirondacks. The members of the party
seemed to be in the best of health and spirits,
and the shotguns and fishing tackle
included in their baggage shows that
A dispatch from Albany states that Presi-
dent Cleveland and wife will be the guests of
Gov. Ill., at the Executive Mansion in Albany,
on their return. The repairs to the Executive
Mansion are being hurried to the end that the
building may be ready to. receive the Presi-
dent and Mrs Cleveland June g. the day
when they expect TO be the Governors guests.
THE Commissioner of Agriculture has quar-
antIned the cattle in Westchester, New York,
Kings, Queens, and Suffolk Counties, New
York, and Prince Georges Carroll, Howard,
and Baltimore Counties, Maryland, on ac-
count of the alleged prevalence of pleuro-
pneumonia. In consequence of infor-
nation that pleuro-pneumonia pre-
walls among neat cattle in Scot
land, customs officers have been ordered to
prohibit the importation Of neat cattle and the
hides of neat cattle from that country. A
Prescott, Arizona, dispatch says Governor
Zulick has issued quarantine proclamation
against the importation of cattle subject to
pleuro-pneumonia from New York. Vermont,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land, District of Columbia, Virginia, Illinois,
England, Scotland, and the Dominion of
Canada
The National Convention of Brewers con-
Guided its sessions at Baltimore Thursday
William A. Miles, of New York. was elected
President, and Thies J. Lefens, of Chicago, is
one of the Wee Presidents. Thirteen thousand
dollars was voted the brewers of Michigan,
Texas, and Tennessee TO aid in fighting the
Prohibitionists, and $1,000 was voted for pub
LEGATION purposes The next meeting will be
held at st Paul
The excitement over the railroad question
in Manitoba is increasing. At Winnipeg,
Wednesday night, Sir George Stephen and Mr..
Van Horne, of the Canadian Pacific, were
burned in ef1igy. Proposals for building the
new railway will be advertised for by the Pro-
vincial Government next week.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted Friday by the
General Council of the Reformed Episcopal
Church, in session at Philadelphia, recog-
hiZhS auulteIy Us 'he ohly sCIiPtui"l Biouhu
for divorce, and forbidding the marriage of
divorced persons, excepting only when the de-
cree was awarded for violation of the seventh
commandment
A RESOLUTION was introduced at Fridays
session of the General Assembly of the United
Presbyterian Church Of North America, and
referred TO q special committee, declaring
against all measures of license or tax of the
liquor traffic, and that entire prohibition was
the only effective, permanent remedy to end
the evils of strong drink.
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THE WESTERN STATES.

FIRE caused by cat overturnng lamp
ina store destroyed the business portion of
Detroy, suburban village near Detroit
RAIN has fallen throughout the Upper Michi-
gan peninsula, quenching the forest fires.
The village of Hawthorne, Wisconsin, has
been swept away by forest fires. The insur-
ance at Lake Linden aggregates 1897, 600.
Fires are still raging at various points in the
Northern Peninsula of Michigan.
JUDGE DBEII. at Morris, H., on Monday
rendered his decision in the case of Schwartz
and Watt, convicted of killing Messenger,
Nichols and robbing his express-car on the
Rock Island Road. He refused TO grant the
motion of defendants for a new trial and
sentenced them to Imprisonment in the peni-
tertiary for life. The sentence will not go
into effect for thirty days, the interim being
allowed counsel for the defense toprepare the
record for the Supreme Court
AN Albuquerque a. NJ dispatch says that
Pablo Crispire's saw mill, thirty miles east of
that city, was the scene of terrible explo-
sion resulting in The destruction of the prop
ery and instantly killing six men, one of them
the son of the proprietor, and seriously in
juring the head sawyer, Thomas yataw
CoPIoUs rains all over the peninsula have
extinguished the forest fires, says Mar
quette (Mich) special The relief fund for
the Lake Linden sufferers, including the
$4,000 appropriated by the Legislature, now
amounts to about $4,000. Marquette sends
81, 800 aud large amount of bedding, cloth
ing, etc; Nesaunee and Ishpeming about
$4,000; Hancock, Houghton, and Calumet,
$1,000; Detroit about $4,000.
The condition of the wheat crop in the
Northwest has been greatly improved by the
recent rains and the prospects are now highly
encouraging.
The Interior Department has approved the
right of way of the St Paul, Minneapolis and
Manitoba Railway Company through that
portion of the Blackfoot Indian reservation
lying within the jurisdiction of the Fort Peck
Indian agency in Montana. The distance is
III miles, and the number of acres required
3,5oS, the appraised value of Which is so cents
per acre
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cred last Thursday. The Sultan can hardly
bo enjoying life much better these days than
his imperial brother of Russia
The loss of life by the Opera Comique fire
at Paris IA much greater than at first sup
pos d. Sixty bodies had been recovered up
to Thursday evening. In the Chamber a
Deputy estimated the number who persisted
at 2Jl. A credit of 10000 francs was voted
for the relief OF the suffers. A special from
Paris says:
The CONSERVATION cnused by the Opera
Comique disaster was increased tonight by a
terrible discovery similar t. that made aftor
the burning of the Brooklyn Theater in Deem
Der, 1876. At IL O'Clock the pompiers. working
with picks, came upon mass of human
mains, from which they dragged forty
corpses. Many are now believed TO be
in the debris OF the theater The
following are the latest official figures
Total Number of bodies found, hfty-three
twenty eight of whom were identified; thirteen
severely wounded sixty slightly wounded 100
missing-that is to say those reported to the
police as having gone to the Opera Comique
W. dnesday night, but who have not turned up
This brings the total list up 10 226 Nearly all
the bodies are those of well-dressed persons
many still have their gloves. The
bodies were twisted into strange, weird
shapes; some seemed broiled If on
a , sridiron. Under the debris Of a
whose charred and blackened members were
intertwined in almost LAGOON coils One of
these was that of IL woman whose face was
literally roasted like overdone piece OF beef.
In her ears glistened large pair of solitaire
diamond earrings. The right arm was frac-
tured; the lett arm was wound about smaller
corpse, appearantly that of Il girl about twelve
years old, probably her daughter. The other
corpses OF this group were so black and so
mangled that il was almost impossible to say
whether they We're the remains of human be-
ings or Of animals.
LORD COLIN CAMPBELL has consented to be
placed in bankruptcy, in accordance with the
decision of the Bankruptcy Court on the petit
ton of the Duke of Marlborough. His abil-
tiles are 5000, including 10000 for costs in
Cured in rosecutng his divorce suit against
his wife
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THE RAILROADS.

A New YORK dispatch says the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Company has purchased
the st Louis and Chicago Railroad, running
from Springfield to st. Louis, which, with the
Atchison and Lake Erie and Western, will
make through line between St Louis and
Chicago.
The Pennsylvania Company is gobbling up
number of small lines with view to gam
ing an outlet from Pittsburg to the lakes and
the traffic of Northern Ohio.
The consolidation of the Dayton and Iron
ton and Dayton and Delphos divisions of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad
gives the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad third
line to Chicago from Baltimore via Marietta,
Chillicothe, Dayton, and Fort Wayne
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cese. At Omaha Mr.. Powderly declared
that he would never again hold Office as
General Master Workman. A great many
Knights are aspiring to the position at the
head of the order, in anticipation of the
vacancy to be made. The Missouri Synod
Of the Lutheran Church warned its mem
bers against joining the Knights.
The Knights in Tennessee are taking
active steps to form a Labor party, and
Richard Trevelick has been engaged to
stump the State. Jesse Harper and some
other Labor leaders have been working
Kansas. In Missouri the Labor party is
organized in several large towns. In Michi-
gan large Labor party vote will be polled
at the next election, if activity in organiza-
ton means anything. Robert Schilling and
a score of active leaders are working Wis
consin. In Iowa General Weaver has taken
the field. A State convention will be held
in Ohio on July to nominate State OH
GERS. Columbus is the point. The Henry
George wing of the Labor party will hold
q convention in Cincinnati on the same day.
South Carolina has 80 mills, 4, 600 looms,
and 230, 900 spindles.
The next convention of the CiQarmakers'
International Union will be held at New
York.
The labor agitations in Great Britain are
assuming larger dimensions, particularly in
mining, IRON working, and in the engineer
ing trades. The coal miners in Northum-
berland have been on strike several months
for 123 per cent. advance. The equivalent
of $4,000 has been expended in benefits
upon the membership. Never before has
there been SO much agitation among Brit
ish workmen OF all crafts with reference
to emigration.
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DEATH OF BEN: PERLEY POORE.
The Well-known Newspaper Correspond
emf Passes AWAY Mt Washington.

The Well-known Newspaper Correspond
ent Passes Away at Washington.
A WASHINGTON dispatch announces the
death of the veteran newspaper correspond
eat, Maj. Ben: Perley Poore. He had been
sufferer from Bright's disease for several
years, which was the cause of his death. His
life has been busy and eventful one, as the
following brief biography will show:
Ben: Perley Poore was born in Massachusetts
in 1920 At the age of eighteen he became edit
or of the Southern Wing, n Georgia newspaper,
sequently he went to France as historical agent
for his native State remaining abroad from IA
to 1913. During the same period he was foreign
correspondent of the Boston Atlas. After his
return TO America he edited the Boston Daily
Bee and the american Sentinel Subsequently
he removed To Washington, and in Is II became
correspondent at that city of the Boston Journal
Among his writings are 1.-The Rise and Fall of
Louis Philippe, written in 1913; The Conspira-
cy Trial" written in 1867 and 1.-THE Political
Poore during his long residence at Washing
ton, Ind met and known fifteen Presidents,
beginning with John Quincy Adams, besides
having had familiar relations with such emil
and Marcy. During his Residence abroad he
travelled through all the leading European
countries, rs we'll as Greece, Asia Minor, Pal
estine, aud Egypt His residence, Indian Hill
Fam, near Newburyport, Mass was built over
two hundred and thirty years ago by Major
Poore's Engl sh ancestor John Poore, but has,
of course, received frequent additions. not the
least interesting being the wing added by Ma
Jor Poore. 1t contains over two hundred acres.
Among the curioBities to be seen there is
which Charles ii. hid after the battle of
Worcester.
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THE INDUSTRIAL REALM.

AT meeting in Pittsburg the blast fur
mace men of the Mahoning and Chenango
Valley and the Wheeling aud Pittsburg dis
tricts unanimously demanded a reduction in
the price of coke from 81 to $50 per ton.
STRIKES in different parts of the country
have injured business more or less, but it is
believed that the aggregate trade of the
United States is at least 10 per cent greater
than year ago. This statement is based
on trade reports from leading cities,
bank clearings, and railroad earnings. -
The crops in the Red River valley, which
were recently suffering for want of rain, are
now said TO be in danger of being drowned
out The late rains are said to have embraced
the entire wheat belt of the Northwest and
with the exception noted the outlook is gen.
orally favorable The output of the Min
neapolis flour mills last week was IS, 800
barrels, against 1O5 l5) for the pre-
ceding week, AID 1855 barrels for
the corresponding time in 1856
PHILADELPHIA stonecutters struck on ac-
count of the employment of non union men
in some of the yards.
II. G. Dun & Co. S weekly trade review, is
sued on Saturday, says:
The most important news of the week is that
crop prospects nave decidedly improved In
view of the great speculation in wheat and cot
ton, and the false reports carefully circulated
by interested parties. il is of service TO know
that our own agents telegraph from Wisconsin,
local rains have helped the agricultural dis
trcts;" from Minnesota, rains throughout the
Northwest have very materially improved crop
prospects :" from Kansas City, prospects are
excellent for exceptionally large crops" re
cent copious rains OF great benefit from New
Orleans; crop prospects generally good and
these are samples of favorable dispatches from
nearly all quarters. I he fear or injury thus far
seems satisfactorily removed, and if harm TO
wheat or cotton is to come. il must be from eli
matte influences in the future This good news
for the whole country is dsheartening, how
ever when financial psospects have come 70
depend upon the success of gigantic specula-
tions for an advance i'll prices of products
The financial future is also affected by the
large receipts of the Treasury, amounting
for ten months and twenty days to S3l ,612,-
s67 more than the receipts for the same part
of the previous year At the rate the
Treasury must take from the markets very
large sum every month after the last call
for per cents maturing July /, and Wash
ngton dispatches state that the admin
istration will purchase bonds with great re-
luctance, if at all. The last statement of New
York banks showed an increase of losses and re-
serves because Mr.. Manning S new bank was for
the first time included but the drainage of money
to Chicago to meet the needs of speculation
still continues, the return to that point from the
interior being retarded by real-ostate and other
activity extensively prevailing.
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THE POLITICAL FIELD.

EX-SENATOR THURMAN declares that under
no circumstances would he accept a nomina-
ton for Governor of Ohio.
Gov. HILL has vetoed the registry bill
recently passed by the New York Legislature.
The following letter from Judge Thurman,
says Steubenville Ohio dispatch, has been
received in reply to question whether he
will accept the spontaneous and unanimous
nomination for Governor OF Ohio:
am confined 10 my bed by sickness, and can
only write by the hand of an amanuensis that
under no circumstances would / accept the
nomination for Governor. / much regret that
my name is mentioned In connection with that
office. have done all could TO discourage IL,
and I assure you that my reasons well
founded and are infexible. 1 highly appreciate
the Kindness OF my friends. but cannot accede
TO their wishes. Yours truly,
A. @. THURMAN.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND says he does
not want the vacant position on the. United
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TIE EASTERN STATES.

MRS PATRICK O'BRIEN celebrated the
Queens birthday at New Haven, CT, by
draping her house in black and affixing TO it
notice, one of which read: God save Ire
land from the widow Of John Brown"
Crowds of Irish people gathered about the
house. cheered Mrs. O'Brien, and burned the
effigies of the Queen and Lord Lansdowne.
JUDGMENT for s2S2, 5S3 in foreclosure
against. the trustees OF the Nickel-Plate Rail
road has been entered at Buffalo.
FRIDAY night, as a fast train west on the
Pennsylvania Railroad was nearing Kittan-
ming Point, Pa, the wheel of a car on freight
train east burst, and the car crashed into two
passenger coaches with terrible effect, killing
instantly four men and injuring many others.
kilograms were Immediately sent to Altoona
for physicians, and all that could be procured
were detailed to the wreck The killed and in
jured are as follows:
Killed-Dal Graham. son OF ex-Speaker Ora
ham, Allegheny, Pa. j. III. Stauffer, OF Louis
Vile, Ohio; Wymer Snyder. one-legged man,
OF Shamokin, Pa. John Doris, newsboy, East
Liberty, Pa. Frank McCue, Is East Thirty
third street New York. will die Charles Boz
delman, of Brenfeld, Noble County. Ind dying
njured-A. Agen Fayetteville, N Y, head and
side; Clara Albert Flint, Mich. Rev. John
Afford, Beaver rails, Ia. Hattie luckett, col
ored, Alexandria, Va Rev. X. II. Porter, col
ored, Detroit, Mich. Edith Case, aged eleven
years, travelling with her mother
The stables of tho Belt Line Horse-Car
Company between Fifty-third and Fifty
fourth streets, on Tenth avenue, New York,
were consumed by fire Friday morning. Sew
eral tenement houses in the same block were
also destroyed Twelve hundred horses were
roasted and 100 families rendered homeless.
Loss, 81, So, 600.
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DEATH IN THE PIT.

A Frightful Colliery Explosion I'm Scotland.
CABLE dispatch from Glasgow, Scotland,
reports terrible explosion in a coal pit eight
miles from that city, Forty-five min
ers, who were imprisoned in the up
per seam of the pit, were rescued,
but one of them died after being
brought to the surface. Access to the lowest
seam, where sevent} men were confined, was
for several hours blockel by the debris tum-
bled down by the explosion. 1t was in this
seam that the explosion occurred When 1t
was finally reached, it was too late to rescue
any of the miners who were at work there.
Not one of the unfortunate men was found
alive. The total number Of lives lost by the
explosion is placed at seventy-fve
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BOULANGER LEFT OUT.
A French Cabinet Formed, with the Bel
ligerent Statesman Omitted.

French Cabinet Formed, with the Bel
lgerent Statesman Omitted.
CABLE dispatch from Paris states that NJ
Rouvier has formed cabinet, as follows:
NJ. Rouvier, Premier and Minister of Finance
NJ. Flourens. Minister of Foreign Affairs.
NJ. Spuller, Minister of Justice
NJ. Fallieres, Minister of Interior and OF Pub
lie Worship.
Gen. Saussier Minister OF War.
Admiral Jaures Minister of Marine
NJ. Develle, Minister of Agriculture.
NJ. Etienne, Minister of Public Works.
NJ. Cookery Minister of Posts and Telegraphs.
NJ. Berkelot, Minister of Public Instruction.
The cabinet is composed, the dispatch says,
of moderate Republicans, or of the union of
the left and the operation will be trial OF
reaction against radicalism, miltarism, and
socialism The party of the Right with a
sense of their own security, have promised
the new ministry full support
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THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

NJ DE FREYcINET on Thursday informed
Preident Grevy that il was impossible for
him to form a stable ministry, and that he
must therefore decline the task. The Presi-
dents Of the three Republican groups have
urged President Grevy to remove General
Boulanger from Office
A CoSsTANTINoPLE dispatch says number
of high Turkish officials have been dismissed,
having been detected in conspiracy to over
throw the Sultan From Bucharest comes a
report of plot to assassinate his unfortunate
majesty, which lie said TO have been discov-
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THE NEWS GRIST.
Important Happenings in Every
Quarter of the Civil
lied Globe.
The Very Latest Intelligence
Flashed over the Tele-
graphic Wires.
THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
THE PENNSYLVANIA DISASTER.

More Serious than First Reported-Eight
People Killed.
The accident on the Pennsylvania Railroad
at Horseshoe Bend turns out to have been
more disastrous than first reports indicated
Eight deaths have already resulted, and some
of the injured are in precarious condition.
Miss Mcmahon, a school teacher in Florida,
who was on her way to her home in Beaver
Falls, Pa, furnishes thrilling account of the
catastrophe. The story, told in her own words,
is as follows:
was sitting about the middle of the second
coach from the engine. The train was running
ut II high rate of speed when the accident hap
pened. The shock was terrific. i was thrown
violently against the seat in front of me. The
train stopped suddenly. In Il minute all
was confusion. and l was at loss
to know what had happened. l soon
heard shrieks from the passengers in the coach
in the of the one 1 was in, and L at once
knew that something awful had happened.
raised the window and looked out. The entire
sides of the two coaches Immediately in the
rear of the one / was in were crushed in
could see the passengers climbing out over the
coal-cars lying on the adjoining track. The
passen gers who We're not injured assisted in re-
moving the killed and wounded.
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Crop Prospects.

The winter wheat prospects have been
greatly improved in Indiana and Ohio in the
recent rains. In other Western States the
outlook is still impaired by dry weather Late
sown grain in Southern Minnesota is back
ward, owing to the drought The yield Of
spring wheat in Iowa promises to be large.
In Northern and Central California wheat has
been injured by hot winds Heavy rains are
reported in the Santa Fe Valley, in New Mexi-
co, to the great advantage of the stock and
agricultural interests.
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Dcvoured by Buzzards.

DISPATCH from Paris, Texas, says that
the body Of Sheriff Jacobs, of Lawson County,
Choctaw Nation, who had been missing for
several days, was found by the aid of buzz
yards which were devouring his corpse.
About 800 yards from where the Shern's
body was found lay the bodies of two negroes,
which had been partly devoured by the buzz
yards. The Sherif's death is profound
mystery. There lie no clue TO the tragedy.
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States Supreme bench. anu would not take it
il offered
GOVERNOR HILL OF New York has permitted
the pool selling bill to become law without
mis- signature.
INTERVIEWED in Chicago, Congressman
Springer expressed the belief that Cleveland
would be renominated.
CONGRESSMAN GUENTHER says the Wisconsin
Republicans are for John Sherman for Presi-
dent
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THE SOUTHERN STATES.

A PASSENGER train in South Carolina was
stopped by the myrads Of caterpillars on the
tracks.
ONE white and two colored convcts, in at
tempting to escape from Kentucky "camp,"
MORALLY wounded the overseer, and all of
them were in turn shot by the guard, two
with fatal results
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FIGHTING EDITORS.

A Personal Controversy Leads to a Deadly
Tragedy.
The perils of journalism in the far West
are illustrated by tragedy that occurred at
Loup City, Neb., where o. b. Willard, editor of
the Times, was shot and killed by b. f. Rich
ardson, who runs the opposition paper, the
northeastern The affair grew out of bitter
personal controversy that the two men had
been conducting in their respective prints
Richardson was arrested, and threats of mob
violence were made by friends of his victim